president matsuda. >> here. >> vice president nageswaran. >> here. >> commissioner foley. >> present. >> commissioner johns. >> here. >> commissioner so. >> present >> and commissioner wright. >> here. >> thank you commissioners. we do expect commissioner black to be absent today. first on the agenda is general public comment. at this time members of the public may address items of interest to the public that within the subject matter jurisdiction of the agenda and for agenda items that opportunity is afforded during that time in the meeting and may address the commission up to three minutes. again if you're in the chimp bares please come forward and calling in please star three. >> . >> seeing no requests general public comment is closed and we can move on to department matters. item one department announcements. >> good afternoon commissioners. i am the director of the planning department. i wanted bring to your attention there's a lot of activity at the state level on housing legislation and one piece in particular that we're following and analyze suggest ab20 len. we did a two pag

commission president matsuda. >> here. >> vice president nageswaran. >> commissioner black. >> here. >> commissioner foley >> present. why commissioner johns. >> here. >> commissioner so. >> present. and commissionering wright yoochl here >> first is public comment. may address the commission on items of interest within the jurisdiction of the commission except agenda items. with respect to agenda items your opportunity will be afforded when the item is reach in the the meeting. each member may address the commission for up to 3 minutes. go ahead, sir. >> great. hi. i'm michael patrellis. i'm here to talk about the castro theatre. and um -- what will be on your agenda in october. um -- i have here a sign that reads, save the seats. it refers to the seat in thes orchestra section of the craft row theatre, which another planet wants to remove so they can flatten the sloped orchestra section. um -- i'm against the um -- eighth plan to renovate the theater. i am um -- here for a number of reason. first to reminds you of trauma in the castro since the 1970s with the political arc assassin